University of
Connecticut-Hartford Campus
Public College in Hartford, CT. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $73,997.
A decade after enrolling, the median University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus student earns $73,997 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate of 65% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $21,500, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 88%, University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool runs to 3,265, typical for a school of this reach. 22% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 35% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 470–610 | 229 (35%) |
| SAT Math | 460–610 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–27 | 9 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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65% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention of 84% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 17% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 26:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,473 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $14,176 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $9,625 at the $0–30k band to $23,777 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $14,402. 39% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 541 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $9,625 |
| $30–48k | $10,403 |
| $48–75k | $14,702 |
| $75–110k | $19,306 |
| $110k+ | $23,777 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 571 of these 1,473 students, totalling $3,380,557 — an average of $5,920 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Capitol Planning Region) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026